List of Famous people born on August 24th
Fayakhun Andriadi
Rudolf Kner
Rudolf Kner was an Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist.
Sebastian von Rostock
Sebastian von Rostock was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Breslau.
Kōno Hironaka
Kōno Hironaka was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan.
Johan Fabricius
Johan Wigmore Fabricius was a Dutch writer, journalist and adventurer.
Elemér Lónyay
Georg Ludwig Carius
Georg Ludwig Carius was a German chemist born in Barbis, in the Kingdom of Hanover. He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years. He was Director of the Marburger Chemical Institute of Philipps University of Marburg from 1865. He is noted for the studies of oxidation for which he developed a method involving high temperature digestion in a sealed tube. Heavy wall sealed tubes, as used for digestion or thermolysis are referred to as "Carius tubes". He also wrote a textbook on polybasic acids.